Maeve was essentially a background character in last week's premiere episode, but she takes center stage in Episode Two, as the Westworld technicians toy with her programming in an effort to make her more appealing to the guests. But whatever the grander implications, the immediate impact is enough, as Maeve spends much of the episode slowly recalling a horrific event from her past buried somewhere deep within her memory banks. As the episode begins, we see the first tiny seeds of the virus that Dolores will spread around the park when she runs into Maeve (Thandie Newton) and whispers the key quote from last week's episode: "These violent delights have violent ends." The line seems to function as a kind of trigger phrase, which might lend credence to Bernard's theory that someone is deliberately sabotaging the robots. If there's going to be a revolution, it'll be a slow-burning one-but the revolution is coming. But it wouldn't be much of a TV show if the robots were already exacting bloody revenge on their human creators and tormentors at the end of Episode Two. This is the closest the new HBO series comes to replicating the original Westworld, which distilled this robot-gone-wild story to a tight 90 minutes.
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